Not possible. They only had a budget of 2 million when they started. It was either mediocre tactical gameplay or interactive sex scenes. Seems they choose the former and instead gave us a high quality flash game.
No, they made the game they wanted to make as Kristoff talked about in the interview I linked earlier.
You are right they did make the game they wanted and I said personally I would rather have had something else.
Of course, everyone is allowed to wish for what they desire and want. Just rarely that happen. It was more of a general thing and not really directly aimed at you. Been so many posts about they made the game all wrong etc. Everyone seems to have their own ideas about how the game should have been, but end of the day its the devs creation.
Absolutely, I agree. You both are right, here. SFOW has the right to make the game they want, and for those of us who consider some aspects of the game to be 'deal breakers' we can simply choose not to buy the game.
I don't think they loose any sleep over that in any regard. Doubt they expect to earn much at all from pirates to start with.
I wouldn't expect them to worry too much regardless at this point, although I will say as far as this site (I can't speak for all), there are tons of people here who are willing to pay for good games. Many of us back indy devs on Patreon. I know I have and there are games here that I'm just waiting to come to Steam so I can pick them up immediately on launch day to support them.
There is many that does, but in the grand scheme of thing, those many is a minority of the whole. Probably around the same ratio of people who torrent or download by other means pirated stuff. Sometimes they buy what they pirate, because they like it.
Ya the way I look at places like F95 are as a way to try games out. If I really like a game and especially a dev, I look to see if they sell the game on Steam and if they do, I buy it - I own both City of Broken Dreamers and Being A DIK on Steam as a couple examples and I'll continue to buy them as they release new parts of the games.
Pirating has little effect on overall sales. Grey market Keysellers like G2A do more harm than pirating. I recall a dev who told pirates they rather trm torrent the game than them having to deal with stolen keys. At the end of the day pirating is more of a moral dilemma than a harmful one for anyone who feels strange about it.
Yep, while there are absolutely leechers out there, or just poor folks who simply don't have the $ to buy games, there are plenty of people who just want to test drive a game before they give their money over. I've had more than a few games that I had never heard of before checking out pirate sites like crackwatch, f95, and piracy subreddits that I ultimately ended up purchasing because I thought the dev did a good job and I wanted them to make more games like that.
Guess I've got some egg on my face here. I didn't actually try plugging in my pad, and there's no mention of controller support on the steam pageso I didnt make the attempt. Usually games have little indicators for that. Im sure there are controller maps in the settings that I completely glossed over. I'll have to give that a shot soon
Ghostrunner comes to mind when I read this. The demo worked just fine but when the game actually launched it had a ton of issues including dropped inputs, which is an issue in a 3D platformer where missing a grappling hook means death. Had I ripped that game off, I never even would've bought it. Luckily refunding is pretty easy but still depending on the game it ties up your money for a while
Ya, never hurts to try things out and even ask folks for their input / read reviews from people who have checked something out that you're interested in.
No it isnt. The point of a harem is to have a lot of girls to fuck. Nothing about a harem has ever meant the girls are exclsuviely your to fuck. Not to mention you can have harems in non self-insert situations.
